In today’s post, I want to share a trick I discovered: using Stackoverflow to help answer my questions. Before you stop reading, I mean without posting my question at all. In fact, I simply r…

We are excited to announce that Time Travel Debugging (TTD) features are now available in the latest version of WinDbg Preview. About a month ago, we released WinDbg Preview, which provides great new debugging user experiences. We are now publicly launching a…

A good type system covers a lot of the small bugs. Unit tests, careful design, and a sound mind can get you through some bigger ones. But sometimes complex b...

A good type system covers a lot of the small bugs. Unit tests, careful design, and a sound mind can get you through some bigger ones. But sometimes complex b...

We’ve all been there -- you push your code to production and a leak causes memory usage to grow out of control. To determine the root cause of the...

When Vikram Chandra started writing his best-selling novel, Sacred Games (2006), he knew it was going to be a big book. And he was right: All told, the novel is 947 pages, includes over 100 characters, and spans a 60-year timeline. To make the writing process…

This guide discusses some of the useful tools for documenting, profiling and debugging Nim code.

Unikernels are small and fast and give Docker a run for its money, while at the same time still giving stronger features of isolation, says Florian Schmidt, a researcher at NEC Europe, who has developed uniprof, a unikernel performance profiler that can also…

debugging method, in which a programmer explains code, line-by-line, to an inanimate object ("rubber duck") or to another person, until the incongruity between what the code should do and actually does becomes apparent

This section describes time travel debugging.

Introduction of the new Haxe macro interpreter

Last Friday, a colleague told me that when connecting an invalid address, the client using gRPC will block forever. To verify it, I use the example code shipped

TLS.support is a free diagnostic tool and REST API for testing browser and client TLS version and cipher support. The service also checks browsers and clients for common TLS-related issues and misconfigurations.

I powered up the IBM I/O Tester from 1965 and got it to light up. This box could be hooked up to System/360 peripherals to debug them. This avoided the cost of building a blinky-light control panel into every peripheral. 🧵